October is Dyslexia Awareness Month
#GoRedForDyslexia
Dyslexia is a neurobiological learning disability that primarily affects reading, writing, and spelling due to difficulties with accurate and fluent word recognition, poor decoding, and slow phonological processing.
Myth: Dyslexia is rare.
Fact: The International Dyslexia Association states that between 15% and 20% of the population have a language-based learning disability, Dyslexia being the most common of these.
Myth: Children who reverse letters or numbers are Dyslexic
Fact: Up to a certain point, it is developmentally appropriate to reverse letters and numbers and it is quite common.
Myth: Intelligence and ability to read are related, so if someone doesn't read well, they can't be very smart.
Fact: There is no relationship between Dyslexia and IQ. Dyslexics can have high, middle, or low IQ's just like the rest of the population.
Myth: Dyslexia is a visual problem – dyslexics see words backwards and letters reversed.
Fact: This was proven inaccurate by a study by Professor Frank Vellutino while at the University at Albany. He asked dyslexic and non-dyslexic American students to reproduce a series of Hebrew letters that none of them had ever seen before. The dyslexic students were able to perform the task just as accurately as the non-dyslexic students, showing that their dyslexia did not affect their eyesight.
Talking Book Program
- An individual who is blind.
- An individual who has a visual impairment that makes them unable to comfortably read standard print books.
- An individual who has a physical disability that makes it hard to hold or manipulate a book or to focus or move the eyes as needed to read a print book.
- An individual who has a perceptual or reading disability.
Family Support
At home, create a safe, encouraging environment for learning. Let your child read books at their own level and pace without pressure. Celebrate effort, not just results. Play games that build phonological awareness, like rhyming, clapping syllables, and matching sounds.
Keep an open dialogue with your child's teachers to share what works for your child at home and understand their needs in the classroom.
Recognize and reinforce that dyslexia is a different way of learning, not a sign of low intelligence.
Progress may be slow, so consistent, positive reinforcement is essential.
Incorporate visual, auditory, and kinesthetic (body movement) elements into learning to engage different pathways.
Cursive Letters Writing Wizard App
Features:
• Show and enforce how to trace letters and words correctly
• 3 most popular US fonts (ZB, DN & HWT) + UK , French and Swiss fonts
• Fun tracing using 50 animated stickers, sound effects and interactive games that animate letters at the end of tracing
• Uppercase & lowercase letters, numbers and words
• Ability to create your own word lists (and record audio for each word)
• Fully customizable to suit every child’s needs (letter size, difficulty,...)
• Check progress thanks to reports that display what the child has traced
• Shapes tracing activity for toddlers
• Create Worksheets and print them to help your child to write on paper
Suitable for kindergarten, toddlers, early learners, preschool and 1st grade kids, Writing Wizard is an award-winning app used in schools.
This free version of Cursive Writing Wizard contains all the features of the full version for a subset of letters, numbers and words, but you can't add your own words and you don't have access to the worksheets.
